Matthew Shum

Matthew Shou-Chung Shum is an American economist. He is the William D. Hacker Professor of Economics at the California Institute of Technology since 2023. He is married and has four children.

Shum's research lies at the intersection between econometrics and the study of industrial organizations that involves applying statistical modeling to consumer and firm-level datasets, studying equilibrium models of rational decision making. He has delivered talks at events such as the 2021 Paris Conference on Digital Economics and the annual NBER Summer Institute, as well as virtual seminars at Texas A&M University, Princeton University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected publications

Econometric Models for Industrial Organization (World Science Lecture Notes in Economics). World Scientific, 2016. Advances in Econometrics (Vol. 31): Structural Econometric Models. Edited by Eugene Choo and Matthew Shum. Emerald Publishing, 2013.